>The tea party movement is about 3 things and only 3 things. Fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government and free market economic policies. > >Anyone claiming anything else is not a part of the movement.
Hmm. Given that the tea party is not a political party per se I'm not sure *who* is qualified to define the manifesto. Wikipedia seems to show that the biggest common denominators are: (a) 73% of Tea Party supporters disapprove of Obama's policy of engaging with Muslim countries. (b) 88% approve of the controversial immigration law recently enacted in Arizona. (c) 82% do not believe that gay and lesbian couples should have the legal right to marry. (d) 52% believed that "lesbians and gays have too much political power".